Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Wonder when they will realize their behavior and ethics impacts their supply chain? Who’s going to get priority? The snake or the honorable fair player?

Suppliers don’t trust Ford
Employees don’t trust Ford
Customers don’t trust Ford

Spend your money wisely and accordingly

Ford named a street in Dearborn to honor Purchasing. It’s called “One Way.”

Anybody but Ford!

Over the past two years, Ford supplier relations have largely remained the same – at least according to the annual Plante Moran North American Automotive OEM – Supplier Working Relations Index (WRI) Study. The Blue Oval ranked fourth among all automakers in 2021 and 2022, though its overall score did drop year-over-year. Now, the 2023 version of this same study has been released, and it reveals that Ford supplier relations took a major nose dive over the past year.

2023 Plante Moran North American Automotive OEM - Supplier Working Relations Index (WRI) Study

After scoring 242 points last year, Ford continued its decline in supplier relations with a score of 219 this year, which caused The Blue Oval to slip from fourth place down to fifth, behind Toyota (338), Honda (331), General Motors, (297), and Nissan (225), but ahead of Stellantis (145), though the latter company also posted the biggest gain of 17 points. Meanwhile, Ford’s 23 point decline was the largest year-over-year decrease as well.

The North American Automotive OEM-Tier 1 Supplier Working Relations Index Study polls salespeople from Tier 1 suppliers serving the top three Detroit and Japanese automakers. The study tracks supplier perceptions of working relations with their customers in which they rate them across the eight major purchasing areas broken down into 20 commodity areas. The results of the study are used to calculate the Working Relations Index (WRI), which can then be used to calculate the economic value of working relations based on a proprietary economic model.

“The industry continues to face unprecedented challenges in the shift to EVs that unless effectively addressed will only get worse,” said Dave Andrea, Principal in Plante Moran’s Strategy and Automotive & Mobility Consulting Practice, which conducts the annual Study. “During Covid, a ‘war room’ approach was adopted to quickly resolve critical issues. That approach is what auto manufacturers need to maintain during the transition to EV technologies. The industry needs that level of collaboration, even without the pressure of a crisis.”

With Ford's commitment to move jobs out of the US, they may soon be Mexican, Indian, or indeed Asian. Lincoln's coming from where?

You buyers can't throw stones when you work in mall offices.

And Ford wants the reputation of being the “Most Trusted Auto Company”. Hard to do when the employees don’t even trust the company. I trust they will move as many jobs overseas as they can.

My understanding is Asian automotive companies are the worst to work with. Which Ford is not one of them.

My uncle worked for a steel supplier in the company's accounts recievable department and he said Ford had the worst reputation for paying bills on time. They always went to 90 days or more and this was in the 1950s.

Must be the only lesson learned in the company that is still applied.

SIRP'd in August. Went to a supplier. Ford's reputation here is abysmal. They use every loop hole and accounting scheme known to try to get out of paying invoices.

When anyone here hears anything about Ford being a most trusted company, people actually guffaw! Uncontrollably.

The other sentiment is that no one here will drive a Ford. The prevailing thought is that if they can't be trusted with partnerships, they can't be trusted to treat customers properly.

Ford is the worst. Can’t wait for all the Dearborn purchasing positions to be transferred to Mexico and the self righteous, thieving incumbent’s be terminated. Vendors openly say “anybody BUT Ford.”

Cancel Ford.